Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, poetic film from an adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown Negro cast, the graceful transformation of the original, and the breathtaking image presented of life as a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus (no kin to Novelist-Playwright Albert) has fashioned an impressive, wildly poetic film from a Brazilian poet's adaptation of the Orpheus legend. The unknown but graceful cast, and the breathtaking image presented of Negro life during a tropical carnival earned it the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes...
...Four Unreasons. A Christian will object that the doctrine is in Christianity because its founder, no Stoic, put it there. But many of Russell's judgments might be echoed by the Christian faith, notably his disdain for the existentialism of France's Jean Paul Sartre. "Poetic vagueness and linguistic extravagance," sputters Russell, who sees freedom "in a knowledge of how nature works [whereas] the existentialist finds it in an indulgence of his moods." Russell may or may not be pleased to find the same thought expressed in the Bible...
...subtle rhythm of the language. Example: the line "he has coiled the hose'' had Soprano Price soaring dramatically over a pointlessly billowing sheen of strings. Barber's Knoxville was at its best when it was least pretentious, matching with quiet lyricism Agee's poetic vision of a remote summer evening in the South: ''The stars are wide and alive, they seem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very near. All my people are larger bodies than mine...
...great production has come to Broadway," the Harvard community was told; "one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them.... Here is a playright who is not afraid of beautiful literate language, and none too soon. He has rejuvenated the anemic field of Poetic Drama Since Shakespeare. J.B.'s quality of language and quality of thought make it one of the few plays worth paying Broadway's orchestra-seat ransoms to see.... a masterpiece ... one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre ... the New York theatre crowd was jolted...